Pierre Jourdan de Cabrières and the other man:How history confused two different men

by Harry Booyens at http://members.shaw.ca /cliffwoodfogge/Pierre.htm:

On 20 March 1688 the Dutch East India Ship China set sail from Goeree for the distant Cape of Good Hope with two men on board who happened to have identical names. Both were Pierre Jourdan; both came not only from Provence, but from the same tiny district of Provence - the Luberon. In fact, they came from two villages within walking distance of each other, namely Cabrières d'Aigues and the hamlet of Belle Etoile some 500 yards outside St. Martin de la Brasque. The two men were wholly unrelated going back at least four generations.

Once at the Cape, Suzanne, daughter of Pierre de Cabrières, married Jean, son of the brother of Pierre Jourdan de Belle Etoile. However, the histories at the Cape managed to confuse the two immigrants and merged their children under the name of only one man. In reality Pierre de Cabrières lived in the very French Drakenstein district and was a strong Protestant churchman. Pierre de Belle Etoile lived in Cape Town, where his daughter married Mochamat Dayan, the son of the Rajah of Tambora and his wife, the daughter of Sheik Yussuf. Mochamat had converted to Christianty soon before and had been baptised David Sultania

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Mochamat Dayan, alias David Sultania & Marie Jourdan

They married on 3 July 1740. She was the widow of the free-born illegitimate mulatto Dirk Pretorius (of whom see below). David Sultania was the son of the exiled rajah / sultan Albubasi Sultan and ranee / sultana Sitina Sara Marouff of Tambora. Born Mochamat Dayan, he converted to Christianity and was baptised David Sultania in 1739. His sister Sitina Asia, baptised Maria Dorothea Sultania, was married to Christiaan Carel van den Bos (from Den Haag) who was executed for the rape of the 10-year-old Johanna Hoog (baptised 8 July 1725), the minor illegitimate child of the widow Pelzer, Elisabeth van den Berg, by Claas (de) Hoog. The rape took place in the house belonging to the deaconij and inhabited by the impoverished ranee who was the daughter of Shaikh Yusup.[31] Marie Jourdan (baptised 16 November 1704), was the daughter of Pierre Jourdan (from Belle Etoile [Luberon, Provence]) and Johanna Adriana Junius.[32]

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David Pretorius & Marie Jourdan

They married on 1 February 1722. He was vrij geboren and mulatto being the illegitimate son of Dirk Pretorius (from Linteloo) by his concubine, the Cape-born freed slave Maria Hans(en) / Hansdochter. Recorded as a fisherman in 1722, Johannes Pretorius was the maternal grandson of the privately owned ‘Guinea’ slave Gegeima / Jajenne alias Lobbetje. He was baptised at the Groote Kerk on 27 May 1691. He was the widower of Constantia van Bengale alias Constantia van Malabar / Coromandel, the widow of the Cape-born, free-black fisherman Joost Ventura. They had seven children. Marie Jourdan (baptised 16 November 1704), was the daughter of Pierre Jourdan (from Belle Etoile [Luberon, Provence]) and Johanna Adriana Junius. On 3 July 1740 Marie Jourdan married (2ndly) David Sultania, the son of the exiled rajah / sultan of Tambora Albubasi Sultan aka Sultan Nissa Nudum Abdul Rassa / Nissa Nidum, Abdula Radja and ranee / sultana of Tambora Sitina Sara Marouff. He was the maternal grandson of Shaikh Yusup. This marriage is discussed separately above.

Abadin Tadia Tjoessoep (1626–1699) aka Sheikh Yusuf / Shaikh Yusup / Sheik(h) Joseph — den Macassarisse Priester, Schjegh Joseph — Muhammad Yūsuf al-Maqassārī (1037-1111 / 1627-99) alias Abd Allāh Abū al-Mahāsin al-Tāj al-Khalwātī al-Maqassārī (known in Sulawesi as Tuanta Salamaka ri Gowa)

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